Speaker - Shoji Kajita

Shoji Kajita is a researcher and practitioner on Infield Information Informatics defined as study of the ways in which community dynamics and information and communication technologies mutually shape each other as a stakeholder of community. He is currently a Professor of Information Technology Center at Nagoya University and a board member of Apereo Foundation. Also he is an Emeritus Professor of Kyoto University as the recognition of his works at IT Planning Office, Institute for Information and Management Communication, Kyoto University. Before that, he was an Associate Professor of Strategic Planning Office in Information Communication Technologies and Services, and also Department of Systems and Social Informatics, Graduate School of Information Science, Nagoya University. His current main interests include e-Learning and e-Science to actualize sharable and scalable information environment across higher educational institutions by Open Source Software and Open Standards.